To know what a law is is not only to own the concept, but its foundations and essence. This is generally an important aspect of life in modern society, because our whole life is somehow controlled by law. First, it serves to prevent and prevent crimes or offenses. Secondly, it helps society systematize its life, which allows it to maintain stability as long as possible. Thirdly, it prescribes all our fundamental rights, and also puts them at the forefront, recognizing their supremacy (accordingly, the law sets itself the task of protecting, fulfilling and restoring our rights).
First step
To begin with, let's deal with the concept of "law". This is a necessity that will allow you to get a general idea about it, because its implementation for all people (not just citizens) who are on the territory of the Russian Federation (or other states) is mandatory. Remember that "ignorance of the law is no excuse." I would like to note right away that the concept of “law” is different for each author, and as such there is no single definition. It is necessary to take into account the discipline within which you consider this term.
Right
For example, recognizedthe concept in the system of law sounds like this: a law is a normative legal act (NLA), which has the highest legal force, adopted by the highest representative (legislative) body that regulates public relations. What is legal force? These are the places of the NLA in the system of law or its supremacy (the system is hierarchical). This means that the law is at the top of the legal system. An example is the Constitution of the Russian Federation - the basic law on the territory of the Russian Federation. In a broad sense, a law is any NLA that operates in a particular legal system. But here it should be borne in mind that by-laws also relate to legal acts, but are not a direct reference to the concept of law (they were issued to help him, but their legal force is much less). We can say that the law is a normative legal act adopted by the legislative subject of the Russian Federation. But this concept is not entirely correct from the point of view of law. After all, it does not reveal the main meaning of the concept. Any NLA can be fitted under this definition, even local ones (that NLA that is published and adopted at the local level, i.e. in various organizations and institutions), and it is at the very bottom of the hierarchy of law in terms of its legal force.
Manifold law
Each area has its own definition of the word "law". This concept will be different depending on the area in which we use it. It can be a social area, religious or otherwise. That is, for example, a law is (in philosophy) essential regularities between phenomena. As you can see, the concepts are very different (due tothe fact that philosophy studies the foundations of being, and jurisprudence studies the existence of people, the state and civilization as a whole in the legal system). In physics, the law can also consider patterns, only between physical phenomena. By the way, every science has its own laws (almost every one). The same physics has, for example, Ohm's law or Archimedes' law, etc. They should also be known, because otherwise we will not be able to solve this or that problem on this topic, as well as advance in the study of science. Philosophy also has its own laws. This is necessary in order to facilitate the process of learning science as much as possible. Knowing the laws, we actually know thousands of regularities of this or that sphere.
Difficulties
As you can already understand, the meanings of the word "law" (as well as its meaning) differ markedly depending on which science we are considering. However, it should be remembered that knowledge of the law (if we consider the system of law) is incredibly important for our life. It will regulate all spheres of life, which means that if we want, for example, to open our own enterprise, we will have to do it in accordance with the current legislation. But that's what it sounds like ideally. In fact, we have thousands of articles and dozens of codes, which even a professional lawyer cannot study. In addition, laws are updated every year (if not more often), they are amended, new articles are being developed. So, as a rule, an ordinary citizen cannot know all of them (even a small part of them). Significantly help inin this case, various kinds of codification (the process of combining the rules of law that regulate the same sphere of society into a single code), systematization (an intellectual process that consists in building a single system of rules of law) and incorporation (the process of combining all existing rules of law, for example, the Code of Laws of the Russian Federation), which greatly facilitate the process of searching and studying a particular rule of law or a whole system of rules.
Result
As you can see, the law is a concept that will differ markedly depending on the area in which we use it. But there is one thing in common between them that unites all terms - this is their importance both in the process of life and in scientific knowledge.
